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Activists have announced a global campaign to demand the release of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who opposed Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and is now on hunger strike in a Russian prison.

The Save Oleg Sentsov group said on Twitter late on May 22 that the campaign, dubbed #SaveOlegSentsov, is being organized for June 1-2, ahead of this summer’s World Cup soccer competition in Russia.

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